There’s undoubtedly a smarter way to do this, but I couldn’t figure it out. I’m doing a functional (controller) test for one of my rails pages. I want to make sure that the picture coming back is exactly 224 pixels high.

I couldn’t find a way to do this using the assert_select syntax, but this workaround seems to work:


  def test_picture_height
    assert_select "div.secondary div.lead_picture img[height]" do |height|
      # pull the tag -- this gives you the whole img tag
      @h = height.to_s
      # extract the height
      @h.gsub!(/.*height="(.*?)".*$/, '\1')
      #run the test
      assert_equal @h, "224"
    end
  end


This can be tightened up, but I left it explicit so that I could understand what I was going. The assert select makes sure that I’m setting the height. The block makes sure that it’s equal to 224.

Are there easier ways to do this?

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